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HAHA. Folders help but it doesn't mean that all is well. You can still have hundreds of photos within the same event folder. I think its nuts if you don't use folders to separate different events especially if a group of photos are from a vacation and a group of photos are from a graduation. Lets say you have a 2 week trip to Europe, people rarely go and create sub folders and spend all that time to sort by country or day or whatever. People just shove all 1000+ photos/videos from that 2 week trip to Europe into that same folder so it still takes time to filter through the photos still.

As Justin Timberlake would say..."Cry me a river"

It did? When? I thought people on here were clamoring that when Sprint released the press release on Aug 7th that it didn't cry out triband LTE support like it did with the press releases for the triband LTE hotspots. So when did Sprint infer that this will be the first triband phone even though it looks it will be?

All these issues about synching music, files, photos to the cloud aren't a concern on Sprint or Tmobile since we have unlimited data. However I have seen complaints from ATT and Verizon users who still want the SD card because they don't want to waste their precious data bucket on searching for photos or streaming music to the cloud and plus trying to find a photo when you have like thousands and thousands of photos in the cloud is pretty annoying and slow compared to a SD card. There are ways around this to for folks on a data bucket but sometimes its hard to convince folks out there not to scale their entire 100+ GB mp3 collection to about 20 GB. For me personally I don't have an issue if the phone I want doesn't have a SD card since 24 GB out of 32 GB of internal memory plus the cloud is sufficient for me. Now if we are talking about a phone with 16 GB total internal storage with only 8 GB of free internal memory, that would be an issue for me though since I can easily use up 8 GB of internal memory.

When you have a chance after you set it up that you could you take a peak at the user manual to see if it talks about triband LTE support.

I am confused. What are you trying to say? Why would the EVO LTE be LTE locked? Unless you are trying to infer that when the EVO LTE was sold, LTE was not out yet officially but Sprint didn't firmware lock it. I think what I said earlier could be OBE given some of the comments that were posted later. Besides I think lordsutch is right. The box could just have boiler plate text that someone forgot to proofread which is why we need to see the user manual to see if it talks about triband LTE at 800/1900/2500 MHz and have folks play with it when it launches to confirm LTE 2600 support.

Well we won't know that until we can see the user guide from the Sprint G2 that says triband LTE.

I wonder why it only mentions 1900 MHz LTE. Hmmmmm. At least we can confirm that the Sprint LG G2 is the right FCC ID: ZNFLS980 which did show triband LTE support. Perhaps, Sprint could be firmware locking the B26 and B41 bands for now until the LTE 800 and LTE 2600 networks become more mature. I wonder if you could take pictures of the triband LTE hotspots/USB devices (netgear zing, novatel mifi, etc) and see if the box says it "800/1900/2500 MHz (LTE)" on there.

Yes the 3 hotspot/usb devices released in August are triband LTE. Sprint did put an emphasize on explaining triband LTE for these triband LTE hotspot/usb devices because they needed to let the customers know that these devices are different than previous hotspot/usb devices which were a mix of Wimax/LTE. I feel that this explanation was needed. Basically Sprint was giving a PSA to the Sprint customers that if you use these new triband LTE hotspot/usb devices, you won't be able to connect to Wimax in the time being while waiting for LTE which many folks liked as a fall back to LTE until LTE gets released in their area.

Unfortunately you are incorrect. Oct 11th is only the preorder date. Someone must have misread the press release by Sprint that it was only for preorder and not for sale. Here is what people say "hearing it straight from the horse's mouth" http://investors.sprint.com/file.aspx?iid=4057219&fid=19653278

Sprint is not going to mention anything about the G2 being triband on their press release. The only hint maybe when Sprint announces the LTE 2600 network going live at some point in the future and at that point, Sprint might mention that they have some smartphones currently released that could take advantage of it that would confirm the G2 is triband. Right now we don't even have a triband LTE network yet so its pointless to tout a triband LTE device when not all the LTE networks are live yet. Besides....we know we don't need Sprint to confirm triband LTE support when the FCC documents clearly state it contains the tri LTE band support (B25, B26 and B41). I can't comment on whether IBT has been right or wrong in the past but the Oct 25th date looks very plausible to me. Oct 25th would put it exactly 2 weeks after the LG G2 goes on preorder and would only be a few more days before the Sprint Q3 conference call. I trust a Oct 25th date rather than a Oct 28th date which is on a Monday. I rarely see any carrier launch devices on a Monday since sales are slow during mid week. Best time to launch a device is on a Friday when people have the entire weekend to go to the store and upgrade their device.

I have a feeling that the first firmware update for the Note 3 will clean up those excess menu entries to avoid confusion or cause a stir in the future.

Of course it means of the same capacity size. The point of comparing Li-ion vs. SiO is that given the same capacity size, doesn't have to be physical, the SiO battery should perform better because the SiO battery uses silicon oxide vs. graphite in Li-ion batteries. My point was whether LG is going to put the SiO battery into the Nexus 5 to make the 2300 maH battery last a bit longer and not appear as bad as it seems OR would they just opt to put a regular Li-ion battery since it might be cheaper and the majority of the public doesn't care about it. I am just guessing they will just put a regular Li-ion battery in the Nexus 5 to keep the secret sauce to the LG G2. There has to be a reason why LG is putting the battery technology as a key feature of the phone on their website and I am sure they don't want to share that technology with Google.

The HTC One I believe doesn't have RF antenna issues. We know that the HTC Evo 4G LTE phone was not the best designed product HTC has done but the HTC One seems to be pretty solid on Sprint.

Wow that sucks. I don't like the direction that Samsung is going with this.

So you are saying even if you flash back to stock, the Knox software keeps track of the fact that you rooted your device before and therefore voids your warranty?

To be honest Sprint and Tmobile can't do anything to touch Verizon or ATT until they improve their LTE coverage. When Sprint and Tmobile finally cover all the major markets and blanket it with LTE customer conversions will go up. Even though Sprint or Tmobile will not have the same LTE coverage as Verizon or ATT, the fact is that the customer numbers play in favor of those carriers that can attract the most customers in the major markets. Sure the rural areas will always go to Verizon or ATT since they have the low band spectrum to reach out there but those are small potatoes. I don't expect Sprint or Tmobile to make any dent against the big 2 for at least another 1-2 years.

What does this mean for development on the Note 3?

Actually the Oct 25th date was quoted from an International Business Times article. I would trust this article that quoted the Oct 25th date rather than the 28th. http://www.ibtimes.com/lg-g2-release-date-set-t-mobile-sprint-free-quickwindow-case-pre-orders-available-1405452 "LG has released the G2, a 5.2-inch phablet with its buttons on the back, which is already available on Verizon and AT&T. However, T-Mobile and Sprint customers are still awaiting a release date. When will the LG G2 see a release date on those carriers? T-Mobile will begin selling the LG G2 in stores on Sept. 25. T-Mobile is offering the LG G2 in white and black, whereas Verizon customers will have an exclusive model with a differently designer rear shell, and a metallic “rear key” (back power and volume rocker) in addition to exclusive wireless charging for the device. T-Mobile has priced the LG G2 at $603.99 -- with $99 paid up front and $21 added to customers’ monthly bill for 24 months. T-Mobile customers will get a free LG QuickWindow case with the G2. Sprint will not release the LG G2 until Oct. 25, but will also offer a free QuickWindow case. The QuickWindow case works as a screen cover that interacts with the LG G2, protecting the screen while displaying apps resized from full view from the small window on the device. The time, messages and music controls can all be viewed from LG G2’s QuickWindow. The accessory retails for $49.99. The LG G2 has a 5.2-inch, full HD 1080p display, with a 2.26 GHz, quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM. The LG G2 sports a 13-megapixel main camera and a 2.1-megapixel shooter on the front, and ships with either 16GB or 32GB of built-in storage, but lacks an SD card slot. The LG G2 has uniquely placed volume and power buttons, located on the rear of the device and dubbed the “rear key” by the Korean manufacturer."

Most def!!!! I just wonder how Sprint will keep track on their website which markets have LTE 2600 in case customers who don't follow this scene can know if their market has been launched.

So we know the Nexus 5 battery will most likely be a 2300 maH battery. My question is will the 2300 maH battery in the Nexus 5 be of the variant of Li-ion vs. LG's Silicon Oxide (SiO)+ proprietary battery that it has in the LG G2. According to the article below, the SiO based battery gives about an extra 6% increase (who knows could be more) in battery life over a Li-ion based battery. This 6% is on top of the extra 700 maH of the LG G2 3000 maH battery which should make the G2 have pretty beefy battery life over the Nexus 5. This is good for LG since it helps differentiate the G2 vs. Nexus 5 and the Nexus 5 would not kill G2 sales. My guess is that LG will just pack a Li-ion battery in the Nexus 5 since it is the norm and no one will even understand the difference. http://www.ibtimes.com/lg-g2-top-3-best-worst-features-lgs-new-flagship-hands-1380227

It took the HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang to come out an admit that the reason for the poor sales have been the lack of marketing since they know they made a great product in the HTC One based on great tech reviews on the device. Perhaps HTC needs to go back to its roots and make a SD card slot with a removable back and pack a much beefier battery. HTC has been notorious to be very stingy with the battery and they need to jack up the battery life since that IMO is one of the top features that customers look for in a premium smartphone. I just hope that HTC and LG does some crazy marketing blitz to advertise their devices to draw market share away from Samsung in the holiday season. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/htcs-wang-pins-problems-marketing-not-products/2013-10-07

To add on to this. I have been following the xda development on this phone and it is making good progress on development for the att,Verizon, and tmobile versions. The thing is a beauty and the ips display is so awesome. There are so many customizations that you can do already if u don't like some of the layout. Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G using Tapatalk 2

Direction of this thread. Can we bring this back to Tmobile and Sprint and not about Alltel already.

Didn't someone ask this same question already? The Sprint LG G2 has already passed the FCC since late July. There is no more government intervention needed for this device. The same with the Nexus 5. This is NOT the reason why the LG G2 on Sprint has been delayed. Believe it or not it is delayed on purpose...and I stand firmly with this theory. The Sprint LG G2 will be released sometime by last week of Oct and you can BANK ON IT!!!! Second since the Sprint version has not come out yet, we don't know if it will display 3 digital style IDs or HEX global IDs. You can try asking the XDA forum for those that have Verizon G2's that run the SignalCheck app to find out. Its too soon to know this information.